How Disruptive Imagination Makes Culture

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Join us in the heights of one of London’s great landmarks for an unmissable evening with Lewis Hyde, a cult hero who has inspired a generation of creators to think differently about what they do. Hyde’s 1983 book The Gift, now a modern classic, is a brilliantly orchestrated defence of the value of creativity and of its importance in a culture increasingly governed by money and overrun with commodities. As those themes surface again, Lewis will take to the stage, 24 floors up in London’s The Shard, to talk on the importance of human imagination in the creation of culture, and to encourage you to think, create and disrupt, and see the world afresh. In association with: Read more.

Join us in the heights of one of London’s great landmarks for an unmissable evening with Lewis Hyde, a cult hero who has inspired a generation of creators to think differently about what they do.

Hyde’s 1983 book The Gift, now a modern classic, is a brilliantly orchestrated defence of the value of creativity and of its importance in a culture increasingly governed by money and overrun with commodities.

As those themes surface again, Lewis will take to the stage, 24 floors up in London’s The Shard, to talk on the importance of human imagination in the creation of culture, and to encourage you to think, create and disrupt, and see the world afresh.

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Lewis Hyde

Lewis Hyde was born in Boston and studied at the Universities of Minnesota and Iowa. In addition to Trickster Makes This World, he is the author of The Gift, a defence of the importance of creativity in our increasingly money-orientated society. A MacArthur Fellow and former Director of Creative Writing at Harvard, Hyde is currently the Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College in Ohio.

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